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It is similar to an article I read a while back saying we need "data engineers" not "data scientists". I think its generally true. Why my company, while it can do data science cons…

Sure thing. I won't here as that would be violating TOS for site

Whoa, sorry I think you added more emotional personal attack meaning to major fail than I intended. I major fail all the time, it's part of life and getting better.

Major fail, I live like two blocks from one of the most beautiful and popular lush and quiet rail trails in the country and is perfect for running and even has mile markers for run…

No they do this because horizontal scalability is more general. Once you cross the threshold of what your meganode can handle you have to rewrite your code from the bottom up

The only way to do this is to build an integration that makes the switch DEAD SIMPLE. If it involves someone being highly motivated to switch over themselves without any help its n…

Disadvantage of retina screens, I didn't even realize. Thanks for pointing out, i'll fix.

You might enjoy this blog post I wrote: http://kyleprifogle.com/churn-based-programming/

Was SparkSQL ever intended to replace hive? My impression was that it was supposed to supplement spark for times it was convenient. I kind of suspected at one point they got caught…

A company I worked at embraced nix. Beforehand I was a big docker fan and had few issues with it (yes there were occasionally caching issues and damn it docker figure out the issue…

Estimates for anything sufficiently complex are pure fantasy. They just serve to place an engineer in a bargaining conundrum and makes them implicitly decrease the scope for the 10…

No one post any fork bombs...

I don't think that's how you define a bug. I think technically you could argue its a "logical error", however that assumes that you know the intent of the creator of bash was speci…

Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when …

I thought the general consensus was that the way that the craft was accelerating far outpaced any known tech by a large margin. I was hoping some aeronautics HNers could chime in w…

Can you explain in your own words for elixir where the balance between "joy" (productivity, flow, whatever you want to call it) and what you call "rethinking the way you write code…

I think AWS was having issues yesterday and today as well. Do you think someone is targeting cloud providers?

I thought this at first too but downdetector sorts all the problem sites to the top which makes it look like the internet is melting when you first look at it. It actually seems re…

I wonder how companies like github decide to determine this when outages are geospecific. Do they not report until an outage is affecting 50% of a geographic region before its repo…

> Consumers don't care about energy. Therefore lets make it illegal not to care?? You need to think more pragmatically.

I worked with Paul at a previous job and really enjoyed it. Such a great mind and passion for functional programming. Would love to work with him again (maybe in a different contex…

All these kinds of HN comments share the same flaw, in failing to recognize that the primary obsession of hacker news is in discussing the flaws of things posted on hacker news.

I would need additional proof that gears were designed with many of these mathematical considerations in mind and didn't just arise out of trial and error by the machinists